Word: clemenceau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author censured. He violently defended the reign of Leopold II even when no one was attacking it. His moods changed with Hamlet-like rapidity, and politicians said he always agreed with the last speaker. The assassination of Tsar Nicholas was a terrible shock to him, and he felt that Clemenceau was endangering the monarchical principle by dethroning the princes of Central Europe. Suspecting slights, he felt that Foch showed wretched taste by remarking that he had gone to Italy to rescue "poor King Victor Emmanuel by the skin of his teeth." Once he told his aide-de-camp, as they...
With the faint scratching of gold pens in Paris last week an era closed-the era of Tiger Clemenceau who tried to throw a cordon sanitaire around Russia and starve the Bolsheviks out as one would exterminate lice. Even last week deep French distrust of the Red masters of Moscow caused Foreign Minister Pierre Laval to receive more praise in Paris for his elaborate ringing of the League into the Pact than for the clauses with teeth which made Berlin shiver...
...watching world than was the unheralded demise of the Turkish Empire. This wasted invalid, the League of Nations, at whose bedside the faithful Marianno stands with a melancholy smile and a hypodermic needle, is that child born so auspiciously in 1919 with racking labor pains to Woodrow Wilson, Clemenceau, and Lloyd George, that same child whose bronchial wheezings on the shore of Lake Geneva for the past sixteen years have so worried a hopeful world...
Traditional British policy strives to keep either France or Germany from becoming top dog. It was Lloyd George who saved Germany from Georges Clemenceau. This week it is His Majesty's Government who save the Fatherland from odium and much else by sending Sir John Simon to shake the flabby-fleshed hand which has just torn up the Treaty of Versailles...
...Secret U. S. State Department archives re-leased last week make clear that Britain's Lloyd George and France's Clemenceau had the full support of the U. S. in their effort to hang the Kaiser, until President Wilson found that the U. S. Senate would not ratify the Treaty of Versailles which reads in part: "The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign Wilhelm II of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offense against international morality...